New Releases by Marcia Thornton Jones

Kids don''t believe that elves work as construction workers building the school playground.

Trying to discover the truth about their eerie new soccer coach''s strange behavior, Melody begins to suspect that Coach Graves has been turned into a zombie, much to the delight of the Bailey School kids. Original.

The new swimming instructor at Camp Lone Wolf, Nessie McFarland, has a strange attraction to the water. And when the kids hear that the Loch Ness monster has gone missing from Scotland, they get a funny feeling. The Loch Ness monster is described as black and skinny with a long neck and a little head which sounds a lot like Nessie in her scuba gear. But Nessie couldn''t really be a monster, could she?

The Bailey School kids want to find out if Miss Kidwell, the substitute school secretary, is really a gremlin messing up the electricity.

There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the new band teacher really teach a skeleton to play the tuba?

The Bailey School kids decide to find out if the boat instructor at Camp Lone Wolf is really a pirate searching for buried treasure.

The Bailey School kids are going to find out if the art teacher with braces on her teeth is really an alien from outer space.

A basketball coach visiting Bailey Elementary is short and has a treasure. Could he be a leprechaun?

The Bailey Elementary School third graders are greeted at camp by Mr. Jenkins, a growling barefoot creature who eats raw hamburgers and avoids lights.